Re: ext3 filesystems - changes ??

From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen redhat com>

To: Jeremy Dawson <jeremy rsise anu edu au>

Cc: ext3-users redhat com

Subject: Re: ext3 filesystems - changes ??

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:30:54 -0500

On 04/12/2010 09:03 PM, Jeremy Dawson wrote:
>
> I hope this is a suitable forum for this question.
>
> I have RedHat9 installed on one partition.
>
> I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on another partition. When I had a
> choice in the installation procedure, I chose ext3 (since I understood
> that the RedHat partitions are ext3).
>
> Now I can mount the RedHat9 partitions from ubuntu, but trying to mount
> the Ubuntu partitions from RedHat produces an uninformative error message.
>
> Why could this be ? Are there different variants of ext3 ?
to some degree yes, there are some ext3 features which older kernels may
not mount.
dmesg likely tells you -something- about the problem - including the
error message is always helpful, even if it's uninformative to you :)
(the generic mount failure message is generally worthless, but the
kernel should say something)
-Eric
> Thanks for any help
>
> Jeremy
>
>
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